Walsingham's manual, or, Prudential maxims for statesmen and courtiers : with instructions for youth, gentlemen, and noblemen

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Walsingham's manual, or, Prudential maxims for statesmen and courtiers : with instructions for youth, gentlemen, and noblemen

by Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Treasurer Burleigh, and Cardinal Sermonetta

Printed for W. Mears, F. Clay, and D. Browne ..., 1728

The second edition

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Translated into English by Edward Walsingham from a French manuscript copy of the second part of "Traité de la cour ; ou, Instruction des courtisans", first printed in London, 1652. Cf. Library of Congress catalogue

With errata at end

The text is continuous despite pagination

"Traité de la cour" attributed to Eustache du Refuge (cf. Barbier)

"Sir Walter Raleigh's Instruction to his son, and to posterity": p. [7]-99

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